Re: RE: WDSC 4.0 Machine Requirements

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Paul,

If it's that hard to justify to management then your management is
pennywise and pound foolish.

For example here the VP of IS was getting concerned because one Notes
directory was growing by 0.3GB/day.  We solved this problem
systematically.  First by looking at the data generated by programs which
basically do a DIR and add it up.  Then we figured out the cost of iSeries
disk.  Then we figured out the number of users.  And while we briefly
toyed around with the idea to restrict users mail files, forcing them to
archive, etc, it was determined that the costs of doing this, the risk of
losing email when an email account got tight, etc exceeded the measly $6k
per year to buy new disk.

Of course, here my PC has been speeding along and they'll stop by and ask
me if I want an upgrade.  Gotta love it.

We bill out our time to our divisions at $65/hour.  Each time you reboot
looses a minimum of .5 hours of concentration, lost work, etc.  Having a
decent PC to avoid rebooting, or messing around deleting files to free
space, pays for itself rather quickly.

Why do people thinks it's okay to spend money that you don't have to get
permission for (people wasting time limping along on old equipment) but
wet themselves instead of asking management for an upgrade?  Paul, I mean
this generally and am not calling you a wimp.

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




"Paul Nicolay" <paul.nicolay@pandora.be>
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08/29/2002 08:47 AM
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Buck,

This reminds me of one of the reasons OS/2 never made it.  It was just to
demanding on the hardware configuration at that time, and it looks like
we'll get the same result with WDSc 4.

So far RSE runs fine for the limited RPG editing/compiling I do with it,
but even in that context it is very hard to explain to management that you
need several hundreds of megabytes RAM for it (while it can be done on a
dumb terminal much faster with SEU).

Kind regards,
Paul

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 wdsci-l@midrange.com wrote:
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>
>I would not consider using 4.0 with .5 gig of RAM unless I were a
hobbyist
>with an extremely limited budget and lots of free time.
>  --buck



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